Credit: American Society for Engineering Education/SMART. This should be welcome news (via the DOE): This afternoon, the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness along with the Business Council, Business Roundtable,…
Read MoreA new graphic biography about physicist Richard Feynman has just been published. I don’t have particular “heroes,” but I have always wished I could emulate Feynman’s wisdom, wit and mellow…
Read More2005 Poinsettia Bowl: The U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen position themselves defensively in preparation for a play by the Colorado State Rams. Credit: Journalist 2nd Class Zack Baddorf; from Wikipedia I spent…
Read MoreAbove, Vanderbilt’s Catherine Gay presented the talk “Dispersion of CNFs in Cement Composites” at the recent 2nd Advances in Cement-based Materials meeting organized by ACerS Cements Division and ACBM. Credit:…
Read MoreCan you explain your research to a coworker? That’s probably fairly easy. How about your spouse? Or your parents? Get’s a little trickier, doesn’t it? But, of course, they know…
Read MoreGetting a sneak preview of the displays at the soon-to-be dedicated Inamori Kyocera Museum of Fine Ceramics are Kate Wilkins and Susan Kowalczyk. Credit: Alfred Univ. Recently I’ve covered a…
Read MoreGNEII nuclear energy safety, security institute was officially launched with the signing of an agreement among TEES, Sandia National Laboratories and Khalifa University. Credit: Khalifa University. The world now is…
Read MoreCredit: CEM; OSU. Ohio State University has issued a request for proposals for its 2011-2012 Materials Research Seed Grant Program. The offering is open to the “OSU materials community.” According…
Read MoreThis falls into the better late than never category: The American Museum of Ceramic Art (better known as AMOCA) has had a great exhibition going since late January on the theme of…
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